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* [[Handsome Lech]]: Favell.

* [[Haunted Heroine]]: Figuratively speaking. The second Mrs. De Winter is obsessed with Rebecca, to the point that she ''feels'' like Rebecca is haunting the house. Mrs. Danvers helps things along...

* [[Hey It's That Guy|Hey, It's That Guy]]: In the film, Maxim is [[Henry V]], [[Richard III]], and [[Wuthering Heights (Literature)|Heathcliffe]]; the Second Mrs. de Winter is [[Jane Eyre]] and [[Ivanhoe|Rowena]]; Mrs. Danvers is [[And Then There Were None|Emily Brent]], [[The Ten Commandments|Memnet]], and [[Star Trek III the Search For Spock|the Vulcan priestess]]; Frank Crawley is [[Romeo and Juliet|Benvolio]] and [[Batman the Movie|Commodore Schmidlap]]; Favell is [[Ivanhoe|Bois-Gulbert]], [[The Jungle Book (Disney)|Shere Khan]], and [[Batman (TV)|Mr. Freeze]]; Colonel Julyan is [[Little Lord Fauntleroy|the Earl of Dorincourt]], [[The Prisoner of Zenda (Film)|Colonel Zapt]], and [[Little Women|Mr. Laurence]]; Beatrice is [[The Twilight Zone|Elva Kane]] and [[My Fair Lady|Mrs. Higgins]]; Giles is [[The Scarlet Pimpernel (Film)|the Prince Regent]] and [[Sherlock Holmes|Dr. Watson]]; and the coroner is [[The Adventures of Robin Hood (Film)|the Sheriff of Nottingham]].

* [[Hey, It's That Guy!|Hey, It's That Guy]]: In the film, Maxim is [[Henry V]], [[Richard III]], and [[Wuthering Heights (Literature)|Heathcliffe]]; the Second Mrs. de Winter is [[Jane Eyre]] and [[Ivanhoe|Rowena]]; Mrs. Danvers is [[And Then There Were None|Emily Brent]], [[The Ten Commandments|Memnet]], and [[Star Trek III the Search For Spock|the Vulcan priestess]]; Frank Crawley is [[Romeo and Juliet|Benvolio]] and [[Batman the Movie|Commodore Schmidlap]]; Favell is [[Ivanhoe|Bois-Gulbert]], [[The Jungle Book (Disney)|Shere Khan]], and [[Batman (TV)|Mr. Freeze]]; Colonel Julyan is [[Little Lord Fauntleroy|the Earl of Dorincourt]], [[The Prisoner of Zenda (Film)|Colonel Zapt]], and [[Little Women|Mr. Laurence]]; Beatrice is [[The Twilight Zone|Elva Kane]] and [[My Fair Lady|Mrs. Higgins]]; Giles is [[The Scarlet Pimpernel (Film)|the Prince Regent]] and [[Sherlock Holmes|Dr. Watson]]; and the coroner is [[The Adventures of Robin Hood (Film)|the Sheriff of Nottingham]].

** In the 1997 adaption, Maxim is [[Game of Thrones|Tywin Lannister]], the second Mrs de Winter is [[Merlin (TV)|Morgause]] and Mrs Danvers is [[The Avengers (TV)|Mrs Peel]].

* [["I Am" Song]]: "I'm An American Woman".

* [["I Want" Song]]: "''Zeit in einer Flasche''".

* [[~~Its~~ a Costume Party I Swear]]: The fancy dress ball held in the second Mrs. de Winter's honour. It ''was'' in fact a costume party, {{spoiler|but Mrs. Danvers suggested M. de W. II dress up as a certain painting in the house, something Rebecca had done in the past, in order to humiliate her.}}

* [[It's a Costume Party, I Swear]]: The fancy dress ball held in the second Mrs. de Winter's honour. It ''was'' in fact a costume party, {{spoiler|but Mrs. Danvers suggested M. de W. II dress up as a certain painting in the house, something Rebecca had done in the past, in order to humiliate her.}}

* [[Kissing Cousins]]: {{spoiler|Jack Favell and Rebecca, first cousins and lovers alike.}}

* [[The Lost Lenore]]: The novel is driven by the haunted Maxim's love for the dead and beautiful Rebecca, and the second Mrs. de Winter's fixation with her. {{spoiler|Subverted, in that Maxim actually hated her.}}

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* [[Villainous Incest]]: {{spoiler|Rebecca and Jack.}}

* [[Wag the Director|Wag The Producer]]: Hitchcock had to resort to some tricky measures to get around producer David O. Selznick's creative demands. Among others, he edited "in-camera" - shooting only the scenes he wanted to include in the final cut so that Selznick couldn't recut the film if he didn't like it. This is why, for example, the film does ''not'' end [[Anvilicious|with a giant "R" appearing out of the smoke]] from {{spoiler|the burning Manderley}}, as Selznick originally envisioned.

* [[Wham Line]]: Maxim's {{spoiler|"I ''hated'' her!"}}

* [[Wham! Line]]: Maxim's {{spoiler|"I ''hated'' her!"}}

* [[What Could Have Been]]: Early drafts of the script named the heroine Daphne (as in Daphne du Maurier).

* [[Wounded Gazelle Gambit]]: {{spoiler|Rebecca's [[Suicide By Cop]].}}